question: which metric shows H264 decoding?

[markmal]

which metric shows H264 decoding?

[clbr]

None, UVD (decode) and VCE (encode) usage is not currently tracked. They are possible to track, just not implemented yet. If your gpu is not doing anything else, then the total usage is the same as h264 usage.

[markmal]

Great, thanks!
if it is not too hard, could you add UVD/VCE to new version?

[clbr]

Please see the existing issues about it (#29 etc). I don't have any hw with VCE, and while I do have cards with UVD, I'm not too interested in that.

[trek00]

you can try that version with UVD and VCE support

[markmal]

cibr thanks!
Hi trek00. Thanks! I've compiled it. It runs. But I do not see UVD. which metric to look?

[trek00]

you should see an entry called Unified Video Decoder if not, you should get an error message or, with some devices/kernel versions, you may need to run it as root adding to the command line the option --mem hope this can help you, anyway what GPU model and kernel version do you have? you can check with: lspci -nn | grep VGA; uname -r ciao!

[markmal]

There is no entry called Unified Video Decoder, with or without --mem
Here is text output

radeontop-1.2$ sudo ./radeontop --mem -d -
Forcing the /dev/mem path.
Dumping to -, until termination.
1575468860.361103: bus 00, gpu 10.00%, ee 10.00%, vgt 0.00%, ta 7.50%, sx 9.17%, sh 9.17%, spi 9.17%, sc 9.17%, pa 0.00%, db 9.17%, cb 10.00%, vram 58.31% 223.91mb, gtt 14.32% 146.29mb

radeontop-1.2$ lspci -nn | grep VGA; uname -r
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Wrestler [Radeon HD 6310] [1002:9802]
5.0.0-36-generic

[trek00]

it should run fine with your card please double check to have cloned the correct branch: git clone --branch drm5 https://github.com/trek00/radeontop.git then compile and check the version: cd radeontop && make && ./radeontop --version it should be print: RadeonTop v1.2-38-gf4fee3c thank you for testing and sorry for the inconvenience ciao!

[markmal]

Yes, this helped!
It shows Unified Video Decoder now.

previously I've downloaded release 1.2 looks like it did not have the feature.

[userofryzen]

it should run fine with your card please double check to have cloned the correct branch: git clone --branch drm5 https://github.com/trek00/radeontop.git then compile and check the version: cd radeontop && make && ./radeontop --version it should be print: RadeonTop v1.2-38-gf4fee3c thank you for testing and sorry for the inconvenience ciao!

radeontop --mem -b 05:00.0
Failed to get UVD usage: error 14 (Dirección incorrecta)
Failed to get VCE usage: error 14 (Dirección incorrecta)
Forcing the /dev/mem path.
Collecting data, please wait....
picasso apu

[hedgepigdaniel]

I've tried applying this patch 5df288c on the current master, but it doesn't work. I see the "Failed to get UVD usage" without --mem, with with --mem it appears but the value is locked to 100%.

I'm using a 5600XT.

[thetick1234567890]

Can this patch 5df288c please be added to the next release as I think some new users of Firefox hardware acceleration like me would like to see UVD / VCE usage?

So in case anyone does not know Firefox added hardware acceleration recently ( though need Beta 81 )! I have a decade old laptop with AMD Palm Bobcat APU (Radeon HD 6250) that I can NOW watch hardware accelerated HD YouTube videos full screen without lost frames. That is absolutely amazing new life for this decade old 1Gz (Dual Core)) laptop!

[dubigrasu]

Can confirm that the mentioned fork works very well (for me), both UVC&VCE.

[thetick1234567890]

I compiled trek00 drm5 branch awhile back and it works great showing UVD percentage with Firefox using r600 driver streaming H264 files.

@clbr do you plan any new builds? I'm sure I'm not the only one here questioning your devotion to this code base. It has been over 9 months and no new builds with the UVD/VCE support. There are many new Vega and Navi GPUs along with many old UVD / VCE Radeons that now have beautifully working h264 hardware acceleration on Firefox. Many of us are highly interested in the UVD and VCE usage stats even though you clearly are not. And your completely false "If your gpu is not doing anything else, then the total usage is the same as h264 usage" is actually quite upsetting coming from a developer who should know better. Your statement is clearly proved false from the UVD stats I've seen on my machine.

Sorry if I'm I a bit harsh but if you are too busy to do a simple merge , tag, compile and test every six months then please pass ownership of radeontop to someone who does have the time. Thanks.

[clbr]

If you prefer a fork, then use the fork.